A number of archeological findings show that boxing emerged in ancient times, thousands of years before Christ. Men boxing in front of spectators are pictured on stone plates, discovered in Egypt and Iraq. These ancient contests are the base of the boxing..
Nearly 1500 years after the last ancient Olympic Games, French nobleman Pierre de Coubertin started working for their revival. The creators of the modern Olympic Games in the end of the 19th century naturally decided that Greece must be the host of the games..
